Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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GP Practice ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40751 on GP Practice Lists, how the standardised mortality ratio for people aged under 65 years old is calculated in each constituency.
Answer: The standardised mortality ratio for those aged under 65 years old is calculated by multiplying the number of people in each age group under 65 years old, within an area, by the national average death rate for each age group.This is calculated at a ward l...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Practice ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40751 on GP Practice Lists, how is the proportion of the population with a limiting long-term illness calculated for each constituency.
Answer: The proportion of the population living with a limiting long-term illness is the proportion of people who answered ‘yes’ to the question ’Do you have a limiting long-term illness?’ in the 2001 Census. This is calculated at a ward level, with no constituen...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Hearing ImpairmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claims for hearing loss have there been in the (a) British Army and Army Reserve, (b) Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, (c) Royal Navy and Royal Navy Reserve, excluding the Royal Mar
Answer: The implementation of the Tactical Hearing Protection System programme took place between April 2015 and September 2016. The number of Noise-induced hearing loss claims brought by current and former Service personnel is reported in the Ministry of Defence...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Hearing ImpairmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claims for hearing loss have there been in the (a) British Army and Army Reserve, (b) Royal Air Force and Air Force Volunteer Reserve (c) Royal Navy and Royal Navy Reserve, excluding the Royal Marines an
Answer: The implementation of the Tactical Hearing Protection System programme took place between April 2015 and Sep 2016. Between 1 April 2003 and 31 March 2015 there were approximately 16,000 common law compensation claims for Noise-induced hearing loss from De...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Hearing ImpairmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the (a) average, (b) maximum individual and (c) total cost of claims paid out for hearing loss, broken down by (i) army, (ii) air force, (iii) navy excluding Royal Marines and (iv) Royal Marines since the
Answer: The implementation of the Tactical Hearing Protection System programme took place between April 2015 and September 2016. Since 1 October 2016, the cost of common law claims for noise-induced hearing loss claims was £250 million. This includes damages and ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Hearing ImpairmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) average, (b) maximum and (c) total cost of claims was for hearing loss in the (i) Army, (ii) Royal Navy, (iii) Royal Marines and (iv) Royal Air Force between March 2003 and the implementation of the
Answer: Between March 2003 and 1 April 2015 which was the start of the implementation of the Tactical Hearing Protection System programme the total cost of common law claims for noise-induced hearing loss claims was £110 million. This includes damages and claiman...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic ExpenditureTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43316More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Government spending as a proportion of GDP was on 31 March 2022.
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes historical outturn data going back to 1948 for Total Managed Expenditure as a percentage of GDP as part of its Public finances databank.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFrance: Foreign RelationsMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of reported comments by President Macron on 27 March 2025.
Answer: France is one of the UK's most important European partners. The UK continues to work closely with France to lead Europe's efforts on Ukraine's long term defence. UK and French led planning is ongoing and discussions continue around military planning of ai...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Land UseDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in the Second Reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on 24 March 2025,
Answer: The National Planning Policy Framework and National Policy Statements were updated in 2024 and make clear that energy infrastructure should always be located in areas of poorer quality land rather that higher quality land where possible. A Strategic Spati...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCycling: TrainingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what elite-level training facilities are used by British Cycling to support (a) road cycling and (b) cyclocross.
Answer: British Cycling has a dedicated elite training facility at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Whilst not all disciplines use centralised facilities, all riders on the Olympic and Paralympic world class programme are supported by world-class coachi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCycling: TrainingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what elite-level training facilities are used by British Cycling to support mountain bike (a) cross-country and (b) downhill.
Answer: British Cycling has a dedicated elite training facility at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Whilst not all disciplines use centralised facilities, all riders on the Olympic and Paralympic world class programme are supported by world-class coachi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCycling: TrainingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what elite-level training facilities are used by British Cycling to support BMX (a) freestyle and (b) racing.
Answer: British Cycling has a dedicated elite training facility at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Whilst not all disciplines use centralised facilities, all riders on the Olympic and Paralympic world class programme are supported by world-class coachi...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Body ArmourMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to develop reduced threat level hard body armour plates.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence will deliver a Personal Hard Armour Framework (PHA-F). This framework will enable the inclusion of emerging technologies and future requirements. Reduced threat level hard body armour plates could therefore be considered in the fut...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordA400m Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the merits of the former Secretary of State's plans to purchase more Airbus A400M aircraft.
Answer: All capability requirements, including those for tactical airlift, are being considered as part of the Strategic Defence Review process.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChagos Islands: SovereigntyForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how the terms of the agreement to lease the Chagos Islands differs from the deal that the Permanent Representative of Mauritius to the UN offered to the United States in July
Answer: Once an agreement is reached and the Treaty is signed, the Treaty will be put before both Houses for scrutiny under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaG) process in the usual way.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42788More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2024 to Question 39650 on Housing: Construction, whether quarterly data on planning applications and housing starts and completions classifies
Answer: Within the Department’s quarterly official statistics on planning applications, an application for the conversion of a house into a house in multiple occupation (HMO) would not be classified as an application for a new dwelling. Applications within Use Cl...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoyal Marines: FirearmsMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason Royal Marines within the Littoral Response Group will be equipped with the Sig Sauer MCX rather than the L403A1-AIW.
Answer: The L143A2 (Sig Sauer MCX) is a flexible capability that is far more specialised and can be tailored to fit niche and mission specific roles required by the UK Commando Force (UKCF). It is therefore better suited to the specialist maritime roles of the Li...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNavy: Body ArmourMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to develop buoyant body armour plates for use in maritime operations.
Answer: The Ministry of Defence will deliver a Personal Hard Armour Framework (PHA-F). This framework will enable the inclusion of emerging technologies and future requirements. Buoyant plates could, therefore, be considered in the future under PHA-F.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDefence: ExpenditureMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Defence budget is spent on Government Major Projects Portfolio programmes.
Answer: Information on the costs of the Department's Defence Major Programmes for financial year 2024-25 is still being collated. I will write to the hon. Member once this is complete.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordF-35 Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42744More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for the creation of a third frontline F-35 squadron.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 20 March 2025 to Question 37763.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRAF Molesworth: US Air ForceMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the US Air Force European Infrastructure Consolidation (EIC) works at RAF Molesworth.
Answer: The estimated cost to the UK public purse to deliver the European Infrastructure Consolidation construction works at RAF Molesworth is £51 million.
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordF-35 Aircraft: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the production delays to the F-35 caused by software instability relating to Lockheed Martin’s Block 4 upgrade.
Answer: We do not routinely comment on detailed delivery schedules however, it is not anticipated that the Block 4 delays will impact the declaration of Lightning Full Operating Capability, scheduled for no later than the end of 2025.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRoyal Marines: RiflesMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned phase out date is of the SA80A3 for the Royal Marines.
Answer: The Royal Marines currently operate the KS-1 / L143A2 and SA80 in a variety of roles. There is no current defined timeline to move Royal Marines entirely away from the SA80 until the current Out of Service Date of 2030.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of recipients will lose entitlement to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund on 31 March 2025.
Answer: On 1 April, it was announced that the adoption and special guardianship support fund would continue into 2025/26, with a budget of £50 million. A further announcement about arrangements for applications will be made as soon as possible. All applications w...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to extend the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund beyond the end of the 2024-25 financial year for those recipients not eligible for split funding.
Answer: On 1 April, it was announced that the adoption and special guardianship support fund would continue into 2025/26, with a budget of £50 million. A further announcement about arrangements for applications will be made as soon as possible. All applications w...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
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